Prompt: One of the hardest things for most of us is talking the first step toward honest vulnerability and letting someone else know something that is deeply true about us. there are often things in our lives that are so powerful and so intense that they affect all the other parts of our lives. We tend to hide these things from the rest of the world because we don’t want to appear to be weak, but many times we will walk away from an encounter with someone else thinking “if only he or she knew... I want you to think about that one thing that you wish the teacher knew?

what are the lines. come on!

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.